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The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. She will give you fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheese, build human health and happiness, and even turn a profit for homesteaders and small farmers who seek to offer her bounty to the local market or neighborhood. She will provide rich manure for your garden or land, and will enrich the quality of your life as you benefit from the resources of the natural world. Quite simply, the family that keeps a cow is a healthy family.
Originally published in the early 1970s as The Cow Economy and reprinted many times over, Keeping a Family Cow has launched thousands of holistic small-scale dairy farmers and families raising healthy cows in accordance with their true nature. The book offers answers to frequently asked questions like, Should I get a cow? and How Much Space do I need? in addition to extensive information on:
The health benefits of untreated milk;
How to milk a cow effectively and with ease;
Choosing your dairy breed;
Drying off your cow;
Details on calving and breeding;
The importance of hay quality and how to properly feed your cow;
Fencing and pasture management;
Housing, water systems, and other supplies;
Treating milk fever and other diseases and disorders;
Making butter, yogurt, and cheese, and, of course . . .
. . . Everything else the conventional dairy industry doesnt tell us!
Now revised and updated to incorporate new information on the raw milk debate, the conversation about A1 vs. A2 milk, fully grassfed dairies, more practical advice for everyday chores, and updated procedures for cow emergencies.
Keeping a Family Cow has not only stood the test of time, it still remains the go-to inspirational manual for raising a family milk cow nearly forty years after its first publication. Joann Grohman has a lifetime of practical experience that has been bound into this one volume and presented in the spirit of fun and learning.
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Keeping a Family Cow
Revised and Updated Edition
The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers
Joann S. Grohman
Foreword by Jack Lazor
Chelsea Green Publishing
White River Junction, Vermont
Copyright 2013 by Joann S. Grohman.
All rights reserved.
First published as The Cow Economy in 1975 with Merril Grohman (Coburn Farm Press) and as Keeping a Family Cow , by Joann S. Grohman, in 1981 (Charles Scribners Sons), in 1984 (Ballantine Books), and in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, and 2008 (Coburn Press, 434 Carthage Road, Carthage, ME 04224).
Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations copyright 2013 by Max Luick.
No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Project Manager: Hillary Gregory
Editor: Makenna Goodman
Copy Editor: Nancy Ringer
Proofreader: Eileen M. Clawson
Indexer: Shana Milkie
Designer: Melissa Jacobson
Printed in the United States of America.
First printing September, 2013.
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Our Commitment to Green Publishing
Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for cultural change and ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book manufacturing practices with our editorial mission and to reduce the impact of our business enterprise in the environment. We print our books and catalogs on chlorine-free recycled paper, using vegetable-based inks whenever possible. This book may cost slightly more because it was printed on paper that contains recycled fiber, and we hope youll agree that its worth it. Chelsea Green is a member of the Green Press Initiative (www.greenpressinitiative.org), a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the worlds endangered forests and conserve natural resources. Keeping a Family Cow was printed on FSC-certified paper supplied by Thomson-Shore that contains at least 30% postconsumer recycled fiber.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grohman, Joann S.
Keeping a family cow / by Joann S. Grohman ; foreword by Jack Lazor.Rev. and updated ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60358-478-4 (pbk.)ISBN 978-1-60358-479-1 (ebook)
1. Dairy farming. 2. Cows. 3. Dairying. I. Title.
SF239.G76 2013
636.2142dc23
2013022230
Chelsea Green Publishing
85 North Main Street, Suite 120
White River Junction, VT 05001
(802) 295-6300
www.chelseagreen.com
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Foreword
In May of 1975, my wife, Anne, and I rented a little farm in Irasburg, Vermont. Within a week, we had purchased a family cow named Pet. It was all part of our master planwe were going back to the land in search of a meaningful life. We wanted to provide for ourselves independent of a world that we saw heading in a different direction.
We thought we were ready for the task at hand. I had read lots of books and had studied the history of agriculture while at college. Anne had taken several animal science courses at UW Madison. We had both done stints at dairy farms and had worked on the historical farm at Old Sturbridge Village. We were so wet behind the ears. What we lacked in experience, we made up with idealism and ambition.
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